Word: prospers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pointe aux Trembles on Montreal Island last week, Petrofina opened a new $30 million refinery, designed by Belgian Engineer Baron Prosper de Haulleville. The plant will give year-round service to the company's Eastern Canada outlets. Crude oil will be carried by tanker from Petrofina wells in Kuwait, fed into a pipeline at Portland, Me., then piped more than 200 miles to Montreal so that the flow can be maintained even when the St. Lawrence River is frozen over. Later, Petrofina plans to branch out to Western Canada and eventually to have service stations from coast to coast...
...itself, Opera News has looked at its most performed opera. Carmen, from just about every possible angle. In 14 issues it has explored such facets as 1) Carmen's progress from vulgarity to respectability among opera lovers; 2) the history of the first performance; 3) the story of Prosper Merimee, author of the original story; 4) the relation between Carmen and her male counterpart, Don Giovanni; 5) Carmen in Korea. Each time one of the old operatic favorites looms, Mrs. Peltz and her two assistants push back the jungle of operatic ignorance a bit farther. When something...
...growing. He measures the need for the bank by letters such as the one he got recently from Mack Truck President P. 0. Peterson, who landed a $1,000,000 bus order from Iran with Ex-Im help. Wrote Peterson: "If America is to continue to grow and prosper, industrial concerns like Mack must find outlets for their increasing production. The Export-Import Bank is playing an essential role in enabling America to obtain its fair share of foreign markets...
...Hatchetmen Smear." To a thunder clap of applause Stevenson declared that "Main Street cannot prosper while the back country is in trouble." On the outlook for peace: "We are spending $40 billion a year for peace, and there is none. Our situation is more perilous than ever . . . While the President smiles, the hatchetmen smear; while the President talks earnestly of peace, the Secretary of State brandishes the bomb and threatens atomic...
...young French priest named Prosper Gueranger, with 40,000 borrowed francs, founded a Benedictine monastery in an abandoned, 11th century priory at the village of Solesmes in western France. "The principal concern of the brethren," he wrote, "will be the celebration of the divine office." First they set to work to find how the divine office should be celebrated. The result was the rediscovery of Gregorian plain song. And so compelling was the force of their meticulous research and meticulously conducted services that by the time Abbot Guéranger died in 1875, almost all the churches in France were...